Itzhak Gilboa - Biography#

Itzhak Gilboa was born in Tel Aviv in 1963. His academic degrees, at Tel Aviv University, are: B.Sc. summa cum laude in Mathematics and Computer Science, and B.A. magna cum laude in Economics in 1982, M.A. summa cum laude in Economics in 1984, and Ph.D. in Economics in 1987; the last two under the supervision of David Schmeidler.

After completing his Ph.D. he was appointed an Assistant Professor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and within 5 years was promoted to Nemmers Distinguished Professor of Decision Sciences there. In 1995-1997 he was a visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. During 1997-2023 he has been a Professor in the Department of Economics at Tel Aviv University, and during 2023-2025 he served as a Professor and Dean at the School of Economics at Reichman University in Israel. He also held a position of Professor of Economics at Boston University (1997-1999), and was a Fellow of the Cowles Foundation at Yale University (2001-2009).

Since 2008 he is a Professor of Economics and Decision Sciences at HEC, Paris.

Gilboa is recognized as a worldwide leading scholar; his honors include: Fellow of the Econometric Society, Fellow of the Society for the Promotion of Economic Theory, Member of the Council of the Econometric Society, Co-Editor of Econometrica, Member of the Council of the Game Theory Society, International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Schumpeter Lecture of the European Economic Association, and the forthcoming Walras—Bowley Lecture at the World Congress of the Econometric Society.

Gilboa has published more than 100 refereed journal articles and 6 books (in addition to 2 edited books and more than a dozen other publications), which are widely cited (more than 19,000 citations on Google Scholar).